Vancouver has 5,000 acres set aside for parks now. years to come up to standard. SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS NEEDED It needs another 5,000 in the next 20 at ns ~~ Fak ke! Ss Park lack serious in Vancouver, Victoria VICTORIA, B.C. Btannan Lake’s Industrial School for boys has 160 acres of land for its 150 inmates and Vancouver secondary schools also have 160 acres of playgrounds — but for more than 15,000 students. area of about 100 acres — the @ area provided for play- Stounds is only 60 percent of What the provincial department OF education recommends for high schools. But it is just 20 Percent of the playing fields that Must be set aside for schools “in Britain. where land’ is at a Premium. war’ BeW School Building Man- eatin, epared by provincial edu- ack authorities says that there Ould be three acres of seeded Play areas per thousand students. on 1S amounts to just more than engy oot football field but not Adena for two. If only one-third the students play and there jis enone a day in good weather, 3 Student will get a game only Ce every three weeks! Interestingly enough, the de- Partment of education will not Y its share for the raking, S€edin, 5 fields. and preparing of turfed The -€ importance viricial edu- Cationa PO. e province sical 1 authorities attach to phy- " peducation may be gauged by the act that they have reduced the 1 dtirements for it to two of ast three years of high school. fo aR of adequate play grounds athe children of British Colum- i 5 largest city formed part of a and re of the ‘state of urban parks Tecreational facilities present- Conte the B.C. Natural Resburces bell ner here by C. M. Camp- inggPbel pointed to the serious Dark witcies in the amount of Space available in the two largest Cities of the province. pncouver has only 6.3 acres of Space available to the public is ti thousand people. This acres than two-thirds of the ten y alas thousand recommended ( Wn planning officials. cil oa Week Vancouver City Coun- $300.0 ered the parks board to lop 00 from its budget.) SNE had nine years per drop and in 1941 and it has been Ulatis US Tapidly ever since as pop- : 4 Tose. Predictions are that wall. be. below five acres per Vancouver's 13 secondary schools have a combined playground rest is in nearby parks used by the students. The Bennett government Amendments to the act br men and Allied Workers. Organized fishermen have for the past several years asked that a definition of “commercial fisher- man” be included in the act and that the levy in the fishing indus- try be collected on each pound of fish sold through the licensed fish buyers. Earlier in the session a delega- tion of 35 to 40 UFAWU members | lobbied MLAs asking that the} promised changes be made, this year. When a major overhaul of the Workmen’s Compensation Act was made at the 1954 session, the gov- ernment made provision that fish- ermen be covered as independent operators, not as workmen. It was said at the time that this action was taken because the Fish- eries Association insisted its em- ployees ‘be considered as small businessmen rather than workers. But the minister of labor made a definite commitment at the time that if the section did not work out, the government would take the lead in working out a new formula. The utter failure of the indepen- dent operator clause is admitted in a return filed by the minister showing that only 12 persons have applied to be covered under it. But the government refuses to admit that failure of the scheme ais due to the fishermen’s opposi- tion to it. Labor Minister Lyle Wicks attributes the lack of ap- thousand in 20 years unless some- ; out thing is done now. The city has 5,000 acres set | ious situation in a very few years. | aside for parks now — it must add another 5,000 in the next two decades if it is to come up to standard. In Burnaby, which will not elect its first -parks board until next December, reckless sale of land to industrial corporations and hous- ing development companies with- the fight for ‘compensation for adequate |parks threatens to create a ser- | | In Victoria, the situation is even , worse than Vancouver — there are only five acres per thousand popu- lation and the feverish building boom on the city’s S proceeding without any provision to prevent needed park lands be- ing carved into lots. fishermen. Women’s Auxiliaries, Native Brotherhood and Vessel Owners. development of, outskirts is! plications to the fact that the sec- tion does not cover an independent ; operator’s widow and children in the same way a worker’s widow , and children are covered. | This year the government has introduced an amendment widen- ing the benefits paid under the |independent operators section to ; make them the same as those paid to workers. This is as far as it will go and, of course, it is not acceptable to fishermen. CCF and Liberals support the The joint delegation shown above met members of the legislature last week to continue Included in the group are members of the UFAWU, Fishermen still _ denied demands VICTORIA, B.C. has again refused to end the discrimination against fishermen by providing them with cov- erage under the Workmen’s. Compensation Act in the same way as other workers are covered. ought down in the House this week include none of the changes asked for again this year by organized fishermen through their union, the United Fisher- amendments asked for by the UFAWU and have introduced them as amendments to the gov- ernment bill. Other amendments increase minimum pensions and raise the allowance payable for total dis- ability. Minimum pensions now pay- able will be raised from $15 to $25 a week in the case of total disability or 100 percent of weekly wages if they were less than $25. Monthly allowances for orphans and dependents of totally disabled will go up from $20 to $25. A new attempt will be made to set.up a form of appeal on medical grounds. - Last year a medical ap- peal board was set up, providing for two specialists, one to be chosen by the Compensation Board and the other by the worker. This appeal procedure was never effective because of opposi- tion from both the doctors and the Compensation’ Board. The new plan will have one specialist nam- ed by the worker from the list of specialists kept by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Re- ports to the worker, of specialist's findings, objected to by the doe- tors, will be dropped. City concert aids Champ An audience of 300 warmly re- ceived the young people who par- ticipated in the fourth annual con- cert held Sunday this week at Pen- der Auditorium in support ef Champion, frogressive national youth paper. The program got off to a lively start with numbers by Ronnie Pajala on the accordion, followed by the Russian Canadian dancers, instructed by Arnold Poliwoda. Searle Friedman led Vancouver Youth Singers in a number of folk and labor songs. ed by the audience was their ren- dition of “Putting on the Style.” The Ukrainian Canadian danc- ers, led by Bea Andruchuk, earned loud applause. Perry Friedman led the audi- ence in mass singing of the popu- lar number, “I'm on My Way.” The concert continued with the United Jewish People’s Order dance group and a rousing square dance by the Finnish Canadian youth. Harmonica numbers hy 12 Chin- ese Canadian boys pleased the audience, as did the demonstration of magic given by one of them. A collection appeal Murphy, chairman of the B.C. Champion committee, brought in $161. A CAR COFFEE SHOP 410 Main St. Now Operated By GEORGE & WINNIFRED GIBBONS PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 11, 1955 — PAGE 7 Particularly lik-, by Rae FD